Bombing of Darwin education resource

On the 19th February 1942 Darwin was attacked during two devestating air raids by 242 Japanese aircraft.

A Royal Commission found that 243 people had been killed druing the raids, but it is probable that the real total number of casualties was much greater.

"A Secondary School Resource Package on the Bombing of Darwin"
Written by Elizabeth Mountford has been developed as a teachers aid to help students develop understandings of the historical, political and geographical context of the destruction brought by an enemy for the fi rst time to Australian soil – the first Japanese attack on Darwin on 19 February 1942.

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- Table of Contents

- Unit One: War Comes to Australia

- Unit two: War Stories

- Unit Three: Territorians at War

- Unit Four: Counting the Cost of War